>DOUGH
>https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-64253634
Tonga eruption: Atlantic seafloor felt Pacific volcano megablast
The massive volcanic blast in the Pacific last year was felt 18,000km away on the other side of the world, on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.
The cataclysmic eruption of Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha'apai on 15 January 2022 sent pressure waves through Earth's atmosphere that connected with the sea surface and triggered 50 highly sensitive seismometers placed 5,000m under water on the seabed.
It was one of a number of intriguing phenomena picked up by the instrument network in the Azores-Madeira-Canary Islands region.
Scientists, led from University College London, had set up the stations primarily to detect earthquakes.
The goal is to use the signals from ground motions to image the interior of the planet, to trace the great upwellings of magma of the type that built the islands of the Portuguese and Spanish archipelagos.
The project is called Upflow, or UPward mantle FLOW from novel seismic observations.
Sensing a far-off volcanic eruption through an atmosphere-ocean interaction was unexpected, as was the detected cacophony of whale song and the explosive sinking of a cargo ship carrying some of the most luxurious cars money can buy.
The volcano signal is interesting because it neatly illustrates the power and reach of the remarkable Pacific event.
Hunga-Tonga produced the highest ash cloud ever recorded, sending rocky particles more than half way to space.
But the energy involved also shook the atmosphere, despatching so called Lamb waves in all directions.
These are energetic waves in the air that move at the speed of sound, along a path guided by the surface of the planet.
Over the eastern Atlantic they produced pressure changes that were transmitted to the seabed.
"It must have been a long wavelength feature because we see it best at the deepest seismometers on the abyssal plain, less well in shallower waters," UCL's Dr Stephen Hicks told BBC News.
Have a look at the chart above. It displays the data from the Upflow instruments, arranged for distance from Tonga.
Just over an hour after the onset of the mighty eruption, seismic waves from its associated Magnitude 5.8 earthquake ripple through the Atlantic network. This signal will have travelled around the Earth, through its crust, at a velocity of a few kilometres per second.
It's a further 14 hours before a Lamb wave arrives.
>https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-cnn-headline-damar-hamlin-covid-vaccine-715865760728
CNN didn’t publish story linking Damar Hamlin collapse to vaccine
CLAIM: Image shows that CNN published a Jan. 11 headline reading, “Doctor of Damar Hamlin confirms Cardiac Arrest was due to the 4th Booster Vaccine.”
AP’S ASSESSMENT: Altered image. The screenshot was manipulated to add the fabricated headline, a CNN spokesperson confirmed. The actual headline reported on the release of the Buffalo Bills safety from a hospital.
THE FACTS: Social media posts are spreading the manipulated image amid unsupported claims swirling online that Hamlin’s cardiac arrest was caused by a COVID-19 vaccine.
“Doctor of Damar Hamlin confirms Cardiac Arrest was due to the 4th Booster Vaccine,” the purported headline shows. The image shows a story published at 1:37 p.m. Eastern time on Jan. 11. Other social media posts without the image similarly alleged that CNN reported such information.
But a search of CNN’s website shows the screenshot was manipulated to change the headline on a story.
The real headline — published at that time, by the same reporters, using the same photo of Hamlin — actually reads: “Damar Hamlin discharged after spending more than a week hospitalized due to a cardiac arrest.”
CNN spokesperson Emily Kuhn also confirmed in an email to The Associated Press that the screenshot was fabricated and that CNN did not publish the headline in question.
Social media users previously shared a screenshot of a tweet from a dubious account, in which someone claimed to be a doctor and purported that the Bills player received a COVID-19 booster on Dec. 26, days before he collapsed during a Jan. 2 game in Cincinnati. That account is no longer active and there is no evidence that the individual was a doctor for Hamlin.
Hamlin was released from a Buffalo hospital on Jan. 11. The Bills and a Buffalo doctor who led Hamlin’s care team, Dr. Jamie Nadler, issued a news release at the time, but did not disclose the results of tests performed to determine the reason his heart stopped.
The NFL player’s tragic collapse spurred misinformation and gave renewed energy to a faulty narrative that the vaccines are causing a dramatic rise in cardiac issues among young athletes. Cardiologists have told the AP there have been instances of athletes experiencing sudden cardiac death and cardiac arrest long before the COVID-19 pandemic and that they have not observed the dramatic increase alleged on social media.
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This is part of AP’s effort to address widely shared misinformation, including work with outside companies and organizations to add factual context to misleading content that is circulating online. Learn more about fact-checking at AP.
https://apnews.com/article/alec-baldwin-legal-proceedings-santa-fe-movies-22f60cabd837b6b9c3300851094e605a
Prosecutors weigh options in fatal shooting by Alec Baldwin
soviet sub base, latham & watkins
https://thenationalpulse.com/2020/10/01/listen-miles-guos-new-song-dear-mamma-i-am-ending-the-ccp/
https://nypost.com/2022/03/18/rust-cinematographer-halyna-hutchins-parents-stuck-in-ukraine/
Late ‘Rust’ cinematographer Halyna Hutchins’ parents stuck in Ukraine
The family of Halyna Hutchins, the cinematographer fatally shot by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western flick “Rust,” is stuck in Ukraine, where her mother is working as a nurse in a Kyiv hospital, a rep for her husband said.
The spokesperson for Hutchins’ widower, Matthew, told TMZ that his late wife’s mother, Olga Androsovych, has continued to work at the hospital in the capital because she knows she can’t leave the war-torn country safely.
His rep also told the outlet that Hutchins’ father, Anatoly Androsovych, remains in Ukraine, while her sister and 3-year-old niece have made it to the Romanian border and are trying to be evacuated.
Matthew also reportedly believes a no-fly zone should be established over Ukraine, as President Volodymyr Zelensky has pleaded with the US to do. But President Biden has refused, saying it would escalate the war.
The grieving man also wants China to intervene to enforce a no-fly zone if NATO won’t do it — and has called for more support for Ukrainian refugees, military aid and diplomatic efforts to protect the country’s independence amid the invasion, TMZ reported.
Hutchins was born in 1979 in Zhytomyr, Ukraine — at the time part of the Soviet Union — and spent most of her childhood on a Soviet naval base.
She studied journalism at Kyiv National University and had kept her Ukrainian citizenship even after leaving the country and marrying Hutchins, a US citizen.
News of the family’s ordeal comes five months after the cinematographer was killed in the on-set shooting in New Mexico.
Matthew has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against Baldwin, who denies responsibility for Hutchins’ death and has filed his own claim attempting to be released from liability.
The 63-year-old “30 Rock” actor also blamed the late cinematographer for giving him the directions that led to the deadly accident on Oct. 21.
https://nypost.com/2023/01/18/hunter-biden-had-access-to-dads-corvette-stored-in-garage-where-classified-docs-were-found-photos/
Hunter Biden had access to dad’s Corvette that was stored in garage where classified docs were found
Newly-published photos show Hunter Biden had access to Joe Biden’s beloved Corvette that the president says was kept in a “locked garage” alongside classified documents from his time as vice president.
The pictures, obtained from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop and verified for authenticity by the Washington Free Beacon on Wednesday, cast doubt on the 80-year-old president’s claims that the top-secret papers discovered in a garage at his 6,850-square-foot Wilmington, Delaware mansion were properly secured.
The snaps, taken on an iPhone camera just outside the president’s home, show Hunter Biden in the driver’s seat of his father’s Goodwood Green-colored 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray convertible in July of 2017, the newspaper reported.
In the two images, the president’s son can be seen posing in the classic car alongside two girls, whose faces are blurred. One of the passengers appears to be Hunter Biden’s niece, Natalie Biden, the report said, and the other could not be identified.
Last week, President Biden admitted that a batch of documents were found in his Delaware garage next to his prized Corvette.
“Classified materials next to your Corvette? What were you thinking?” Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked Biden.
“My Corvette is in a locked garage, OK? So it’s not like they’re sitting out on the street,” Biden replied, seeming to brush off the significance of the discovery.
“So it was in a locked garage?” Doocy persisted.
“Yes, as well as my Corvette,” Biden claimed.
>Goodwood Green 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray convertible
https://twitter.com/rothschildmd/status/1615962814509912065
The number of people who truly want Donald Trump's first post back on Twitter to be "the storm is upon us" is pretty damn frightening, given that phrase is meant to signify the president ordering mass executions.
https://twitter.com/rothschildmd/status/1615812870712987648
With "Operation Mockingbird" trending, it's important to note that the existence of an actual operation - the CIA planting positive stories or talking points in the media - has never actually been proven. It comes up a lot in QAnon, but it's always just been an allegation.
It's usually confused with "Project Mockingbird" which was a wiretap (initiated by QAnon hero JFK) of two journalists alleged to be leaking classified information.
The things being tweeted at me that aren't Operation Mockingbird do not prove that Operation Mockingbird was real.